Improvement in axle-grease



UNITED STAT S PATENT OE IoE;

WILLIAM PETERS, OF LOGANSPORT, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT lN- AXLE-GREASE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 174,738, dated March 14, 1876; application filed February 21, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM PETERS, of Logansport, Cass county, Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Axle-Grease, of which the following is a specification 7 My improved compound for axle-grease consists of twenty (20) gallons of black oil, (West Virginiacar-oil,) well boiled, to whiehis added, after boiling, ten (10) gallons hard tallow, and thirty (30) pounds hard-wood ashes, thirty (30) pounds white lime, fifteen (15). pounds salt, fifteen (15) pounds of sulphur, and fifteen (15) pounds black lead, stirring well till cool.

The above are the proportions for thirty gallons of grease. I do not limit myself to -WILLIAM PETERS. Witnesses:

JOSEPH GREEN, MICHAEL Mo GARTHY. 

